staffer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]staffer (plural staffers)
- A member of a staff.
- The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.
Translations
[edit]member of a staff
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]staffer
- (transitive) to cover with staff (the building material)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of staffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | staffer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | staffant /sta.fɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | staffé /sta.fe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | staffe /staf/ |
staffes /staf/ |
staffe /staf/ |
staffons /sta.fɔ̃/ |
staffez /sta.fe/ |
staffent /staf/ |
imperfect | staffais /sta.fɛ/ |
staffais /sta.fɛ/ |
staffait /sta.fɛ/ |
staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/ |
staffiez /sta.fje/ |
staffaient /sta.fɛ/ | |
past historic2 | staffai /sta.fe/ |
staffas /sta.fa/ |
staffa /sta.fa/ |
staffâmes /sta.fam/ |
staffâtes /sta.fat/ |
staffèrent /sta.fɛʁ/ | |
future | stafferai /sta.fʁe/ |
stafferas /sta.fʁa/ |
staffera /sta.fʁa/ |
stafferons /sta.fʁɔ̃/ |
stafferez /sta.fʁe/ |
stafferont /sta.fʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferait /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferions /sta.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
stafferiez /sta.fə.ʁje/ |
stafferaient /sta.fʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | staffe /staf/ |
staffes /staf/ |
staffe /staf/ |
staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/ |
staffiez /sta.fje/ |
staffent /staf/ |
imperfect2 | staffasse /sta.fas/ |
staffasses /sta.fas/ |
staffât /sta.fa/ |
staffassions /sta.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
staffassiez /sta.fa.sje/ |
staffassent /sta.fas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | staffe /staf/ |
— | staffons /sta.fɔ̃/ |
staffez /sta.fe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “staffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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